Funny story
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I had to share this here, as it's priceless
http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/anyanswers/funny-story/511160
http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/anyanswers/funny-story/511160
I was talking to a friend last night who works in a different practice in the same town as me. He told me that they took a 15 year old girl from the local secondary school on work experience for a week a couple of weeks ago (the daughter of a client).
Yesterday, the client phoned them and told them they were leaving. Asked if they were going to a different accountant they said no, their daughter was going to look after their affairs from now on as she had learned how to do the work during her week of work experience!!
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Love it!
Clearly a missed opportunity for us! We recently got one girl for work experience as well, but she worked for our local sales department, maybe we should fire all the sales people and take on the girl instead!
Surely with a customer like that you should be happy to get rid of them, as they clearly don't appreciate the work you do.
on a (slightly) more serious note, what was she doing on her work experience that makes the parents believe she can do their accounts? lol whenever ive done work experience its mostly filing and tea making....
I know, we were discussing it here - I guess the max I'd get a W/E person to do was some supervised data entry bookkeeping, and maybe watch a tax return being done. And make the tea.
And we went through all those years college for nothing, humph!
Off to spend a week in London.
Catch up soon.
Annie xxxxx
....... truly inspired by a 15 year old!
Divorce and family issues
Wills
Conveyancing
Legal advice for arranging contracts
Employment advice/litigation including Compromise agreements, redundancy advice and tribunerals
and ANYTHING else that solicitors do - I'll know it all after next week!!!!!
And, I'll be charging at least ยฃ250 per hour
You know where to find me.
You'll have to drop your rates to about ยฃ10 per hour, considering how easy it is to learn!
But no, I'll know everything after a week ....... isn't that how it works???????